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As a member of the MIAA and NCAA Division III associations, Hope College sponsors
22 varsity sports for men and women. The college is home to the 2014 NCAA Division
III National Championship women’s volleyball team.

Hope Student-Athletes Named to MIAA Academic Honor Rolls

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Academic honors awarded by the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA)
for the 1999/2000 school year include eleven Hope College teams and 123 student-athletes.

The academic awards programs are administered by the faculty representatives of the
member colleges.

The Team GPA Award, now in its second year, recognizes teams whose members had a minimum
cumulative 3.3 grade point average for the entire school year.

The 11th annual Academic Honor Roll consists of student-athletes who maintained a
minimum 3.5 grade point average for the year.

All nine of the Hope women's athletic teams qualified for the Team GPA Award. Recognized
in order of their cumulative GPA were volleyball (3.558), swimming and diving (3.539)
tennis (3.529), cross country (3.501), track and field (3.478), basketball (3.418),
golf (3.330), softball (3.328) and soccer (3.321).

Teams honored from the men's program were basketball (3.417) and cross country (3.402).
Click for a complete list of teams.

Among the students named to the Honor Roll are five seniors who achieved the distinction
four consecutive years. They are: Ellen Colenbrander (golf) of Holland, Mich./Holland
HS, Jennifer Ernst (cross country and golf) of Westerville, Ohio/Westerville South
HS, Jeff Kauffman (cross country and track) of Minnetonka, Minn./Minnetonka HS, Chris
Kerrins (track) of Lansing/Lansing Catholic HS, and Jennifer Smith (tennis) of Holland/Holland
HS.

A total of 31 Hope students combined academic excellence with participation in two
sports during the school year. Click for a complete list of honorees.